Andrew Gunther

Yeah, so it's important to not fall into the trap of, like, we're in space, so we're safe, right? And especially in that startup culture of, like, wanting to move really fast and compete with these bigger guys, that's something that we're very cognizant of and trying to find those right balances, right?

Yeah, so it's important to not fall into the trap of, like, we're in space, so we're safe, right? And especially in that startup culture of, like, wanting to move really fast and compete with these bigger guys, that's something that we're very cognizant of and trying to find those right balances, right?

it's a big push pull because you definitely want to try and keep your space systems as simple as possible. And we're very much breaking that mold by saying like, we're going to do imagery analysis on board, on board of a satellite. And so it's, it's definitely something that we're constant of. And we have this nicety that we can test a lot of things out in the ground segment.

it's a big push pull because you definitely want to try and keep your space systems as simple as possible. And we're very much breaking that mold by saying like, we're going to do imagery analysis on board, on board of a satellite. And so it's, it's definitely something that we're constant of. And we have this nicety that we can test a lot of things out in the ground segment.

We can use those libraries on ground initially before we make the call of, you know, this is something that we want to run in space. So let's retrofit. We can use all those nice libraries, have 100 gigabytes of dependencies to prove out those analyses on ground.

We can use those libraries on ground initially before we make the call of, you know, this is something that we want to run in space. So let's retrofit. We can use all those nice libraries, have 100 gigabytes of dependencies to prove out those analyses on ground.

And then when we want to say, okay, this is high value, we want to run it on board, we can take that step to say, all right, let's strip this back. Let's make this bare bones. How do we leverage what's already on board to now ship this thing up to space?

And then when we want to say, okay, this is high value, we want to run it on board, we can take that step to say, all right, let's strip this back. Let's make this bare bones. How do we leverage what's already on board to now ship this thing up to space?

Yeah, yep.

Yeah, yep.

Yep, exactly.

Yep, exactly.

Yep. You got it.

Yep. You got it.

So that antenna that actually performs that one terabyte a day downlink, we get a pass on that antenna every 90 minutes. So if you have a really critical high priority workload and your objective is to deliver some insight to a customer as quickly as possible, you might not want to wait that 90 minutes.

So that antenna that actually performs that one terabyte a day downlink, we get a pass on that antenna every 90 minutes. So if you have a really critical high priority workload and your objective is to deliver some insight to a customer as quickly as possible, you might not want to wait that 90 minutes.

even after that 90 minutes is up it has to get to the ground it has to be processed then on the ground before it finally gets delivered so the idea being if we a can prioritize because we're also not able to get down all the data we may have on board every pass so it's kind of twofold right if you can say on board hey i have very high confidence that there is a methane leak at this position

even after that 90 minutes is up it has to get to the ground it has to be processed then on the ground before it finally gets delivered so the idea being if we a can prioritize because we're also not able to get down all the data we may have on board every pass so it's kind of twofold right if you can say on board hey i have very high confidence that there is a methane leak at this position

That is a much smaller piece of data. And there are other antennas that we can use to transmit that data more instantaneously. And then secondly, maybe you have a little bit less confidence, but something is suspect. You can say, all right, on our next pass, this data skips the line. We're going to downlink that first.

That is a much smaller piece of data. And there are other antennas that we can use to transmit that data more instantaneously. And then secondly, maybe you have a little bit less confidence, but something is suspect. You can say, all right, on our next pass, this data skips the line. We're going to downlink that first.